installation fails to compile on ubuntu x86_64

[mauritslamers]

When trying to install node-sass through npm, the compilation process fails while linking.

[2/2] cxx_link: build/Release/binding_1.o libsass/libsass.a -> build/Release/binding.node
/usr/bin/ld: ../libsass/libsass.a(sass_interface.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits, std::allocator >::_Rep::_S_empty_rep_storage' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
../libsass/libsass.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

When manually compiling master, it succeeds.

[mauritslamers]

hmm, very weird... I first get these errors, but now it compiles without issues...
I did notice though that at first npm didn't download the nodejs source code, so it also failed on node.h
anyway, it does seem to work after all...

[deanmao]

are you using node-gyp or waf? I was able to compile using gyp on x86_64. There's no reason for it to look for libsass.a -- that looks like something from the node-waf days.

We should probably just remove wscript so that there's only 1 way to build the package.

[mauritslamers]

Yes, I was at first. That is also why I already closed the issue, because while it didn't install at first, it did three minutes later.